​Are you going to scream if you have to have your morning coffee with Marmaduke one more time? Do you wish that giant-headed mope Ziggy would finally just drown himself in his goddamn goldfish bowl already?

Holleman says he's not much for reading the comics himself -- he stopped
reading them when the Far Side's Gary Larson stopped drawing them --
but he gets that people get attached to those penned peeks into the
lives of snarky talking rats and surly teens.

"I know people get attached to their comic strips and comic
panels," Holleman says. "They're going to be sorry to see them go."

"Arbitrarily, I decided to drop 'Mark Trail.' It was so old," Bradlee said in the Post.

A few days later, office workers at a building
across from the Post's building hung a huge sign where Bradlee'd be sure
to see it.

"BRING BACK MARK TRAIL."

So he did, after hanging a sign that said "OKAY."

That won't work with Holleman, so don't get any ideas if your favorite gets voted off. He says he'll only take bribes, and that we can't even print how many zeros would have to be in the check.

"They can appeal to me all they want," he says. "I can be bribed. I have
a price. It's a steep price."

Sadly, we couldn't reach Josh Fruhlinger, comics nerd extraordinaire who blogs as the Comics Curmudgeon,
but his right-hand man and fill-in blogger Uncle Lumpy hepped us to the
Bradlee story. It's probably just as well -- we would have been reduced
to fangirl squealing if presented with the chance to actually speak
with the man who coined the term "Aldomania."

(Holler if you hear me, Mary Worth-heads!)

Vote online for the strip and panel you want to see no more. You have until 5 p.m. tomorrow. Get to it!